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Who cares for your ducks in the winter?

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You will see hundreds of Green-winged and Blue-winged Teals , Western and Least Sandpipers , White Pelicans , American Avocets , Black-necked Stilts , Great and Snowy Egrets , White-faced Ibises , Ring-billed Gulls , and Caspian Terns. The same could be said of the White Pelicans, but Pelicans are just too amusing.

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Saving the Drowning Cormorant, or the Kerkini Lake, Greece

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Common Nightingales were singing, a squadron of Dalmatian Pelicans was in the air and everything was exactly where it should be, including myself. At mid-day, we took a boat tour of the heronries and the pelican islands with Nikos. Dalmatian Pelican © Dusanka Stokovic-Simic. Belles, rising steeply two kilometres (1.2

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A new year, new life and new hope….

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Our next stop was the Poo Ponds , where there are very few ducks now we have had some rain. Royal Spoonbill and Australian Pelicans. There were several Masked Lapwings and Black-winged Stilt that appeared to be breeding and also Black-fronted Dotterel. Regardless of the weather they were well protected! Four Dollarbirds.

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Birding crème de la crème: Africa – Ngorongoro Crater to Queen Elizabeth II National Park

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The best season for the north-west circuit is February to May, during the rains when most birds breed. There are many species of waders and ducks, vultures, raptors and storks. Serengeti NP protects a huge swathe of almost 15,000 km2 / 6000 mi2 in north-west Tanzania. Serengeti National Park. Lake Nakuru.

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The Top-5 Birding Hotspots of Serbia

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Black Stork and three pairs of White-tailed Eagles breed here. Ducks and herons include Garganey and Ferruginous Duck , Squacco and Purple Herons , as well as the Eurasian Spoonbill. In some years, Spanish Sparrows were reported breeding inside White Storks nests in Sakule. eBird bar chart. #2 2 Baranda fish farm.

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We are Just Money Grubbers

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The decrease in numbers has been accompanied by fragmentation of the breeding range and is continuing to affect all populations. Disturbance on breeding grounds (e.g. Illegal spring hunting and round-ups of moulting birds are taking place on the Russian breeding grounds and illegal shooting continues in Norway.

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Christmas Day birding around Broome

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Our first stop was Cable Beach to find the Pied Oystercatchers in their territory even though the breeding season is over. There were plenty of Australian Pelicans, Royal Spoonbills, Black-winged Stilt and Gull-billed Terns, but the numbers were down on the Plumed Whistling Ducks which normally line the edge of the ponds in their thousands.

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